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By Emily Beament, Press Association Environment Correspondent This year’s spring arrived in November, with insects active and flowers blooming months ahead of schedule, nature sightings from the public show. The Woodland Trust’s Nature’s Calendar scheme, which asks the public to track signs of the seasons, has received more than 64 records of early spring activity

By Emily Beament, Press Association Environment Correspondent Environmental threats including extreme weather and a failure of climate action are among the top risks facing the world this year, economists have warned. The World Economic Forum has raised concerns the world is “sleepwalking into a crisis” with global risks from political and economic tensions to climate

By Emily Beament, Press Association Environment Correspondent Last year was the fifth warmest for the UK in records dating back more than a century, the Met Office has confirmed. Figures show the UK climate is warming, with average temperatures over the last decade around 0.8C above the 1961 to 1990 average, while the country has

Parts of Spain and Portugal are set to sizzle this week in the first heatwave of the summer. After a relatively cool start to the season, a combination of high pressure over the Iberia peninsula and low pressure over Morocco will see a plume of increasingly hot air start to move north from Africa, according

By Press Association Reporter A heatwave which could produce the hottest temperatures this year is sweeping across the UK. After a weekend of wall-to-wall sunshine around the UK, temperatures in London may hit around 29C in line with sunny holiday hot spots in southern Spain. Very high levels of pollen and UV mean that hay

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